Sociology 18

Professor R. Satow

Fall, 1999

Office: 3615 James

Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays: 8:15-9; Monday and Wednesdays 12-12:30 and 1:30-2:30; Fridays 12:40-1:30

Office phone: 951-4576

Grading and course requirements:

There will be two examinations, a term paper and a final in the class. The two examinations and the paper will each count for 20% of the grade and the final will count for 40%.

If you are absent from an exam you will get an F unless you call and leave a message for me before the exam takes place.

I will take attendance at the beginning of every class. If you are late or absent more than six times, you will fail the class.

Your paper is due at the beginning of class on November 15, unless you get my permission before November 15. Late papers will lose one full grade for each class it is late—i.e. if it is due at the beginning of class on Monday and you hand it in on Friday after class you will lose three grades.

Students are required to buy two books and a package of reproduced material from the Campus Copy Shop. If you cannot afford to buy the books, please see me after class.

Students are required to bring the reading for the day to class with them.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Sept. 1-Emile Durkheim, Suicide. "Egoistic Suicide."

Sept. 3-Print out "Egoistic Suicide" study guide and bring it to class with the book .

Sept. 6-College Closed

Sept. 8- "Altruistic Suicide."

Sept. 10-Print out "Altruistic Suicide" study guide and bring it to class with the book.

Sept.13-"Anomic Suicide."

Sept. 15-Print out "Anomic Suicide" study guide and bring it to class with the book.

Sept. 17-"The Anomic Division of Labor" (reproduced)

Sept. 20- College Closed

Sept. 22-"The Functions of Crime" (reproduced)

Sept. 24-Robert Merton, "Manifest and Latent Functions." (reproduced)

Sept. 27-First examination.

Sept. 29-Term paper topic, three references typed in proper format and copies of the articles are due.

Oct. 1-Revised references due. Lecture on Karl Marx.

Oct.4-Irving Zeitlin, "The Philosophical Foundations of Marx’s Social Thought," pps. 1-17." (reproduced)

Oct. 6-Irving Zeitlin, "The Philosophical Foundations of Marx’s Social Thought," pps. 17-28.

Oct. 8-Irving Zeitlin, "Marx’s Conception of the Capitalist Mode of Production," pps. 33-44.

Oct. 11-College Closed

Oct. 13-Irving Zeitlin, "Marx’s Conception of the Capitalist Mode of Production," pps. 45-58.

Oct. 15-Irving Zeitlin, "Marx’s Theory of the Capitalist System," pps. 61-78. (reproduced)

Oct.18-Irving Zeitlin, "Marx’s Theory of the Capitalist System," pps. 78-115.

Oct. 20- Reinhard Bendix and Seymour Martin Lipset, "Karl Marx’s Theory of Social Classes" and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "On Class." (reproduced)

Oct. 22-C.W. Mills, "The Power Elite." (reproduced)

Oct. 25- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "On Alienation." (reproduced)

Oct. 27-THESIS STATEMENT IS DUE.

Oct. 29-Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, "Some Principles of Stratification."

Nov. 1-Response by Melvin Tumin. (reproduced)

Nov. 3-Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, "The Bell Curve Thesis" (reproduced)

Nov. 5-William Julius Wilson, "When Work Disappears." (reproduced)

Nov. 8-Second Examination.

Nov. 10-Roberta Satow, "Max Weber." ( Part I is reproduced )

Nov. 12-Max Weber, "Class, Status and Party." ( reproduced)

Nov. 15-Max Weber, "Bureaucracy." (reproduced) TERM PAPER IS DUE at beginning of class.

Nov. 17-Roberta Satow, "Max Weber" (Part II is on the web).

Nov. 19-Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Introduction by Randall Collins.

Nov. 22-Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter 1.

Nov. 24-Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter 2.

Nov. 26-College Closed.

Nov. 29-Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter 3.

Dec. 1-Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter 4.

Dec. 3-Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter 5.

Dec. 6-George Herbert Mead, "Self." (reproduced).

Dec. 8-Erving Goffman, "The Presentation of Self." (reproduced)

Dec. 10-Review for the final.